Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has approached it as an example of a much more general position in the debate about the possibilities of knowledge which he called ‘ historicism ’ characterized by a presumption about the nature of history : |
| 2 | My readings in Zen , too , had shown me the folly of love , analysed it as an illusion among all the other illusions of this floating and temporary world , an emotion that by its very nature created suffering . |
| 3 | It had meant nothing at first , but then he had thought to try it as an entry code to some of the secret Ping Tiao computer networks he had discovered weeks before but had failed to penetrate . |
| 4 | Stonehenge still has a very special air in spite of the official attempts to destroy the place ; York Minster has it , and Chartres has it to an incredible extent . |
| 5 | ‘ Shut the window , please ’ is said in a situation where the speaker rather expects the hearer to act so as to fulfil a certain sort of wish of his , if he indicates that he has it by an imperative sentence . |
| 6 | However , the Cultural Revolution was also presented as an attempt by the party to gain control of the state bureaucracy and even replace it as an organ of implementation . |
| 7 | I would be inclined to house the mower elsewhere , or replace it with an electric one . |
| 8 | MOTORSPORT : Benetton will give their B193 Formula One car its racing debut at next week 's South African Grand Prix — and then replace it with an even newer model after just three races . |
| 9 | As Guthrie foresaw and wrote to me after attending an early performance : I feel confident that Gloriana will survive and be considered a great work … that disastrous miscalculation of opening it to an audience and on an occasion that required an all-star Iolanthe will set it back twenty years . |
| 10 | The ancient Forest system was in fact cumbrous and inefficient : the attempt to revive it as an instrument of Crown policy was doomed to failure . |
| 11 | However , the firm made a mistake in buying up the Laker Holidays label and trying to revive it in an effort to diversify its operating base . |
| 12 | If you know enough about a task , you can always translate it into an exercise in theorem proving . |
| 13 | My father said the 17-horse power would use too much petrol , but it gave me a year 's pleasure before I swopped it for an A30 van . |
| 14 | Perhaps then they heated it in an oven , or on a hot griddle ? ) |
| 15 | There are a number of major problems with this interpretation of events , however , which makes it difficult to accept it as an entirely adequate explanation . |
| 16 | Well that shows us what a dramatist was lost to the English stage when Milton finally decided to write it as an epic and not as a play . |
| 17 | When Dixie Dean was on holiday in Ayr , he noticed that a professional sprint was to be held and entered it as an outsider and won ; he thereby not only demonstrated the outstanding athletic abilities of top footballers ( Matthews was also a fine athlete ) , but underlined the survival of the old pedestrian traditions at the new resorts catering for working-class holiday-makers . |
| 18 | Bill cuts through the line after grabbing at thin air and landing it in an arbitrary process . |
| 19 | This house was run down until the owner completely renovated it and redecorated inside and out , and transformed it into an impressive home |
| 20 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 21 | The prosecutor may decide to terminate the case , treat it as délit or , exceptionally , send it to an examining magistrate . |
| 22 | ‘ Your house will be worth a lot more now , ’ people remarked brightly , which observation — if it brought forth a reply at all — was countered by a snapped : ‘ I did n't buy it as an investment ’ . |
| 23 | Did she buy it from an office somewhere ? |
| 24 | Its results can be heard to best effect in the rapt serenity of the slow movement of the Second Quartet ; the composer described it as an ‘ intimate talk between God and man ’ , and it really is music of extraordinary beauty , a half-lit oasis of repose amid the vigour of the rest of the Quartet . |
| 25 | In January 1936 he lectured in Dublin and when in June of the same year he agreed to read poetry at Sylvia Beach 's bookshop in Paris ( he was in that city for a four-day visit ) she described it as an " historic event " although one member of the audience on that occasion remembered how he did not once glance at his listeners , but seemed " fiercely defensive " and turned the pages with a " look very near distaste " : his profile was " like a bird of prey of some sort " . |
| 26 | Does my right hon. Friend remember that when the investment income surcharge was abolished in 1984 , the then Chancellor of the Exchequer described it as an unfair and anomalous tax on savings and on the rewards of personal enterprise ? |
| 27 | No group claimed responsibility , but Jan Urban , a leading figure in Civic Forum , described it as an attempt to disrupt the elections , and blamed former members of the Statni Bezpecnost ( StB — State Security or secret police ) , which had been abolished on Feb. 1 [ see p. 37255 ] . |
| 28 | King Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz declared that the disaster was " God 's unavoidable will " , and government officials described it as an " accident " and due to " panic " following the collapse of a pedestrian access bridge , denying that a power cut had halted the air supply in the tunnel . |
| 29 | The intensified aerial bombardment and resulting civilian casualties came in for strong criticism , with all the opposition groups in parliament ( hitherto supportive of military action against the LTTE ) subscribing to a statement which described it as an inhuman action against the people . |
| 30 | Some elements in the Argentine military , along with members of the opposition UCR , characterized the abandonment of the missile programme as a capitulation to US demands , and described it as an irresponsible move at a time when Chile was suspected to be seeking a new missile . |